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Mozilla is building a version of its Firefox web browser for Windows 10 personal computers using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, a move that boosts the chipmaker’s efforts to challenge Intel’s dominance. Most PCs these days use Intel’s x86 family of processors, though a small fraction come with AMD chips that can run the same software. But …

Qualcomm’s next flagship processor is embracing the same photo format technology championed by Apple, a move that will let you squeeze more pictures into your next high-end Android smartphone and maybe advance beyond ordinary snapshots. Last year, Apple introduced support for High Efficiency Image File Format, or HEIF, as part of an effort to improve digital photography, giving it an …

Intel has made progress on a technology called spintronics that could boost your phone, laptop and smartwatch as conventional chip technology runs out of steam. Researchers at Intel and the University of California, Berkeley on Monday described spintronics work that could shrink chip component sizes to a fifth their current size while cutting power consumption by a factor of 10 …

The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, edged out a Chinese system that last year was the very fastest. The Top500 list ranks supercomputers based on how quickly they perform a mathematical calculation test called Linpack. …

A long-promised chip manufacturing technique is now here. And that means our phones will keep getting faster, while our batteries will last longer.  Samsung on Wednesday said it’s now building 7-nanometer chips using technology called extreme ultraviolet, or EUV. EUV has been in development for decades, but it’s been difficult to roll out in real world factories. Samsung now is …

Even if you haven’t heard of Arm, you’ve known about its chip technology, because it powers just about every smartphone out there. Now with a new chip family called Neoverse, the UK company hopes every internet service your phone taps into will also be powered by Arm. Arm got its start as Advanced RISC Machines, a spinoff from Apple’s ill-fated …

Apple made a deal to buy part of Dialog Semiconductor for $600 million, allowing it to license power management technology and acquire more than 300 workers. Cupertino, California-based Apple will pay the UK chip designer $300 million in cash initially for certain assets, and an additional $300 million for product delivery over the next three years. The deal is expected …

Samsung really appears to be cashing in chips. The South Korea electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record its biggest operating profit ever in the third quarter, likely thanks largely to continued strong demand for its memory chips. The company said its operating profit will come in at around 17.5 trillion won ($15.8 billion), a 20 percent increase from …

To get an idea of how small the electronic elements are on the Apple A12 Bionic chip at the heart of the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, first squint really hard at a human hair. It’s thin, obviously. But it’s still thick enough that you could fit about 10,000 of an A12’s electronic components across its width. That miniaturization …

Making its debut at the IFA 2018 conference in Berlin is a fresh line of Yoga PCs from Lenovo, which now includes a premium Chromebook and a traditional clamshell laptop.   The highlight is no doubt the innovative dual-screen Yoga Book C930. This second-gen model arriving in October starting at $1,000 has a 10.8-inch 2560×1600-pixel resolution display and an E Ink display that …